FROZEN PRODUCE LETTER.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20776, 9 February 1933, Page 13

FROZEN PRODUCE LETTER.

THE MEAT MECCA. MERCHANDISE MARKS URGED. . ■ (F»o* Oua Sprcial CoßtfisroKDßivr.) LONDON, January 5. As one stood amidst the great forest alf meat of all kinds that crowded the tvswea of the London Central Markers In Christmas wet-k, one could not help Maderfyg to what extent the appearjjtti of that galaxy of rosy meat would £,« ehingfld ia the next Yuletide disWgy if the Government gets its way and pm ia force the order which is now Ii for to mark all this great -with the brand of the counin, under tho Merehnndb'O jf 1926. As these lines go uMic enquiry is being held ;tec room at the House of Westminster, into tho adid practicability of such an tep, an application to this been made by Home meateats. For the Government, d at the outset of the enmeat marketing were found the order would be granted, is opposed by tho Nation*)! of Meat Traders' Associu;w Zealand Meat Producon' Tew Zealand and Australian ociation, tho Grocers' AssoDock and Harbour Autho;ition, and the Imported Moat jeiations. The- Irish Free i opposing, it Marking Scheme. plea for tho marking order ■, the prevention of aubstie retail sale of meat, but :ag the chango do so :m ds of the impracticability wily branding meat in all ieces, and also the dotcrioro appearance of meat so rly in the enquiry procecdinsel for the applicant adthe Government's National ng scheme, with which the had made such great piot, had been an abject failisiou very far removed from oud trumpetings of success lie by tho Ministry of Agile same speaker at tho cn- ; to propitiate; or rather to i ■aw of, those appearing for d interests, by tho assurin all-round marking order rejudice the sale of CanterThis, ho admitted, was an id prime product, and its J only recommend it. He jest that butchers as a rule gell imported meat as Engjfoportion of them wmo not enlighten customors exactly uld bo avoided. Under the lcmo. it was said, the Home nld bo graded under tho ark, the Kmpire meat, would nd marked with the Empire foreign! meat would bo h the foreign mark. They J a distinctive wrapper was not wrapped in the precustomer, but sent to the jponse to, say, a telephone ry, so far as meat was conttry was also to be coni to last five days, and tho ight bo assumed, would be fore these lines are in print, ■aid, however, that if the r obtains this change in the f the sale of meat in Great may ultimately find the re- ■ as he is concorned, far o! what ho expected. Unthe British public places ence in certain standard ipire moat, and if this be may possibly act against of the more varied types ed moat in certain classes iany people have a strong <m seeing meat universally tual Meat Display. (tmas Show at Smithfield markable as ever, viewed jmondons variety of moats, to hand from all parts d, including such different as Iceland and South i South American firms, fts, Morris, Armour's, Wileddcl's—the latter showing ican as well as Empire .yed fine arrays of prizo-i-atton, and lamb sent from icially for tho Christmas altogether considering the ! times, Smithfield excelled its vast exhibits. era Meat Transport. b of the times that when a of chilled beef from Southarrived in London reeontly, iportod to varjous parts of insulated railway vans, rcith solid carbon dioxide, or ia railway enterprise was toration between the Southand tho Imperial Chemical Ltd., whereby twenty-four cars were thus entrained sful consignment which, by as only taken twenty-five i entire journey from Buluithficld. The meat reached ana in very good condition, aintained the good name i Africa is making in the t for her exports carried at chilling temperatures. iMBS DISPLAYED SMITHFIELD. ARABLE COMMENT. as »8Boci«ioa-»i uoscTiua •Main—COPTBIOHT.) LONDON, Februury '■ Zealand lambs for the id district competition disSmJthfield, attructed much and favourable comment, congratulated & n Iford (High Commissioner), 8. Fomyth {London mannSw Zealand Meat Word; ou the splendid quality ritt. ■known authority said t» e »*hed an object lesson to farmer, who would be beti trying to market similar trying to get Empire meat y marking. «».awarded the Challenge *he best district to Wai*,for individual pens were: ntfrarapa; second, South «»y; third. Manawatu; tke'a Bay.